The ETIM is said to be allied with the Taliban, who have received funding from rogue elements in Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence ( ISI ), leading to a potential diplomatic confrontation between Pakistan and China.

At present, hand-knotted carpets are among Pakistan's leading export products and their manufacture is the second largest cottage and small industry.

* Inter-Services Intelligence, Pakistan's leading intelligence agency

He is Pakistan's leading run scorer in Test cricket.

He engaged Pakistan's political parties in a process leading to parliamentary democracy.

He was the leading wicket-taker in the tournament, joint with Pakistan's Shahid Afridi on 21

LUMS was established in 1984 by a group of industrialists and professionals belonging to Pakistan's leading private and public sector corporations, to provide rigorous academic and intellectual training to students.

With 20 centuries, he is Pakistan's leading century-maker in ODIs.

On 5 October 2007, Inzamam retired from international cricket following the second Test match against South Africa, falling three runs short of Javed Miandad as Pakistan's leading run scorer in Test cricket.

Inzamam made a century in each innings of the second Test match against England in 2005, to become Pakistan's leading centurion with 24 centuries, breaking Javed Miandad's record.

In the 2004 season, Mushtaq was again the leading wicket taker in English county cricket with 84 scalps, but with Danish Kaneria's emergence as Pakistan's first-choice leg spinner, Mushtaq's international career was over.

As Pakistan's first Foreign Minister, Zafarullah Khan addressed the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan in the days leading up to passing of the Objectives Resolution.

Husain gained her first experience of journalism at the age of 18, spending three months as a city reporter in Islamabad at Pakistan's leading English-language newspaper The News.

His articles have found publication in Pakistan's leading newspapers, including the Dawn, which has historical foundations in the Pakistan Movement itself.

Fazal finished the series with 20 wickets at 38. 20, despite being one of his worst in terms of average, he was still Pakistan's leading wicket-taker.

Despite missing a match Fazal was Pakistan's leading wicket-taker for the series, taking 11 at 19. 36.

Aziz Mian Qawwal () ( April 17, 1942 – December 6, 2000 ) was one of Pakistan's leading traditional qawwals and also famous for singing ghazals in a unique style of qawwali.

A leading historian of Pakistan as well as South Asia, Prof. Jalal has received numerous awards and acknowledgements including the Prize Fellowship from Trinity College ( 1980-84 ), the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship ( 1998-2003 ) and the Sitara-i-Imtiaz, one of Pakistan's highest civilian awards in 2009.

He also writes for Dawn, Pakistan's leading English-language newspaper.

Before joining Pakistan's nuclear energy programme, Mahmood was trained at the Nuclear Engineering Division of the Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology ( PINSTECH ).

In his writings and speeches, Mahmood has advocated sharing Pakistan's nuclear weapons technology with other Islamic nations which he believed would give rise to Muslim dominance in the world.

Pakistan's Prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto vowed in June 1974 that he would never succumb to " nuclear blackmail " or accept " Indian hegemony or domination over the subcontinent ".< ref > The Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Munir Ahmed Khan said that the test would force Pakistan to test its own nuclear bomb.

Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari said on November 22, 2008 that his country was ready to commit to no first use of nuclear weapons against India.

In 1978, President Daud Khan began to take initiatives for building the massive military after witnessing the India's nuclear test, Smiling Buddha, to counter Pakistan's armed forces and Iranian military influence in Afghanistan's politics.

With news of Pakistan planning to launch a nuclear attack in the face of a loss in the war with India, Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was summoned to the US by Bill Clinton and warned against any such mis-adventure.

In July 2011, Abdul Qadeer Khan, the key figure in Pakistan's nuclear weapons development, allegedly claimed that North Korea had gained access to Pakistan's nuclear technology in the late 1990s by paying bribes to Pakistan's senior military officials, a claim Pakistan's senior officials disputed.

A study by Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University titled " Securing the Bomb 2010 ," found that Pakistan's stockpile " faces a greater threat from Islamic extremists seeking nuclear weapons than any other nuclear stockpile on earth.

* Abdul Qadeer Khan ( 1936-), Pakistani metallurgist considered to be the father of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program.

In opposition to her conservative opponent Nawaz Sharif whose policy was to make the nuclear weapons programme benefit the economy, Benazir Bhutto took aggressive steps and decisions to modernize and expand the integrated atomic weapons programme founded and started by her father in 1972, was one of the key political administrative figures of Pakistan's nuclear deterrent development.

He built several infrastructure projects including canals, dams and power stations, began Pakistan's space programme and gave less priority to nuclear deterrence.

He also escalated Pakistan's nuclear programme, and instituted industrialisation and deregulation, helping Pakistan's economy become among the fastest-growing in South Asia.

His father, Dr. Mujaddid Ahmad Ijaz ( July 16, 1937 — July 14, 1992 ) was a Pakistani theoretical physicist and professor of physics at Virginia Tech University who was noted and known for his work with sub-atomic and hypothetical particles, and his early role in during Pakistan's early stages of nuclear energy programme.

In November 2001, Taliban, Al-Qaeda combatants and ISI operatives were safely evacuated from Kunduz on Pakistan Army cargo aircraft to Pakistan Air Force bases in Chitral and Gilgit in Pakistan's Northern Areas in what has been dubbed the " Airlift of Evil " Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf wrote in his memoirs that Richard Armitage, the former US deputy secretary of state, said Pakistan would be " bombed back to the stone-age " if it continued to support the Taliban, although Armitage has since denied using the " stone age " phrase.

" The Dubai government ordered Tecom to shut down the popular independent Pakistani news channels Geo News and ARY One World on the demand of Pakistan's military regime led by General Pervez Musharraf.

Army chief Pervez Musharraf takes control of government as Prime Minister of Pakistan ; he would dominate Pakistan's political leadership for nine years.

* Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistan's top scientist and founder of Pakistan's Gas-centrifuge programme of the Pakistan's nuclear device was also put under house arrest for a long time by General Pervez Musharraf.

In October 2000, a coalition of Christian non-governmental organizations sent a petition to Pakistan's president, Pervez Musharraf, requesting a dialogue between the government and minority religious leaders on the controversy.

* Abdul Qadeer Khan, founder of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program, is removed from his post as a special science and technology adviser to Prime Minister Pervez Musharraf after Khan, three other scientists and three low-level Pakistan Army officers are investigated in connection with the sharing of Pakistani nuclear technology with Iran, Libya and other countries in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

* Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf admits that he had suspected for at least three years that Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistan's top nuclear scientist, was sharing nuclear technology with other countries, blaming the United States for not giving him convincing proof of the activities of his own scientist.

On December 25, Junoon had once again been embraced by the Pakistani government, and were even joined on stage by then the President, General Pervez Musharraf, as he invited them to perform at the mausoleum of Pakistan's founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, on Jinnah's birthday.

In June 2001, President General Pervez Musharraf vowed that Pakistan's " mininum nuclear deterrence " would not " be compromised ," but stated that " Pakistan's nuclear capability is entirely for self-defense.

Following the military takeover by General Pervez Musharraf in 1999, she was one of four civilian members of the National Security Council of Pakistan in 1999 and 2000, when the Council was Pakistan's supreme governing body.

The Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has vowed that it will not be implemented and President Pervez Musharraf filed a reference against it in Pakistan's Supreme Court.

In the April 30, 2006 edition of Time, Benjamin wrote a favorable profile of Pervez Musharraf, with the headline, " Why Pakistan's Leader May Be The West's Best Bet for Peace.

In September 2007, Ahmed flew to Islamabad with Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, in a bid to end Sharif's exile from the country by military ruler Pervez Musharraf, who had ousted him in a coup d ' état.

* Tariq Pervez, a Pakistani policeman, was the director-general of Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency

In March 2006, much to the disapproval of the centre, Omar Abdullah had a one-on-one meeting with Pakistan's president, Pervez Musharaf, in Islamabad.

The agreement was signed by Emaar Chairman Mohamed Ali Alabbar and Senator Babar Khan Ghauri, Minister for Ports & Shipping in the presence of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz.

During his visit to India, President Pervez Musharraf had renewed Pakistan's claim to the house which the president had suggested to Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee should be given to Pakistan so that it could be turned into a consulate.

Allies of President Pervez Musharraf withdrew their candidate for Pakistan's prime minister, Farooq Sattar, and the coalition chose Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani as the Prime Minister of Pakistan, who was sworn in March 25, 2008 by President Pervez Musharraf.

Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf was the star guest at the event, hosted by A1 Team Pakistan Chairman Arif Hussain and its Managing Director, Chaudry Salik Hussain.

Khan also secured the world exclusive with Pakistan's General Pervez Musharraf following his coup in October 1999.